Thursday, February 04, 2016

Greed-Crime and Wealth-Crime

Substance-abuse courses in America are generally court-ordered subjections to doctor-state psychosociobabble jumbling pseudoscience and pseudomedicine, garbled history and breathless promise of new modes of diagnosis and therapy just around the corner (and even court-ordered religious indoctrination in the case of AA/NA--see the vid The Twelve Steps--apparently only government, not citizens, can violate the law, in this case the First and Fourteenth Amendments).

Such courses succeed only in boring or annoying most of their captive participants, except those who have reason and have already chosen to try to change, for whom such courses might suggest some useful strategies, the best of which stem from the neurological observation that it is easier to learn new than unlearn old behavior (another might be the temporary use of support-groups, other than those which, like AA/NA, attack the reality of choice and further demand ‪lifelong obsession with, if only by primary self-identification as ex-abuser of, the substance in question).

Anger-management courses are likewise generally court-ordered and similar in character to the above-mentioned.